The year that was...Quiz S02Q13

Wishing u all a very happy and prosperous new year .
                                                             ~the weekly quiz blog team.
As promised,we are back with the answers,a winner and a gift.


News, views, controversies ,awards ,gossips and scandals...year 2009 had it all.
Before the drift into yet another year of events begins,let"s remember and relish 2009 in our own ishtyle :)

Mail in your answers to sbadhulika@gmail.com latest by 30th dec "09.
Results to be announced on 1st jan 2010( There"s nothing better than being a winner on a new year"s day :)
A surprise gift awaiting as well !

Please restrict all clarifications on the questions to the  "comments" jurisdiction page.


All the best.

1.Identify and connect

Answer:Coat of Arms of Sri Lanka; Killing of LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran by Sri Lankan Army .

2.Identify and connect both pictures

    

Answer:Michael Phelps contract with Kellog’s  was terminated after he was found taking marijuana.

3.Too creative yet controversial.Identify the retail brand to which these ads belong.

Answer:United Colors of Benetton

4.All that glitters is not gold...easy one...Identify the location ...

Answer:Dubai

 

5.All the best :) Identify  the logo.

Answer:Prometric (CAT 2009 going online)

6.Identify the movie.

Answer:Inglorious Basterds

7.Identify the incident and the popular phrase it created.

Answer:Beer Summit; U.S. President Obama hosted a meeting over beers on July 30, 2009 between a black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates and the white police officer Sgt. James Crowley who arrested him in a sitdown aimed at calming racial tensions and nationwide uproar sparked by the incident.

8.R.I.P. Identify the famous personality

Answer:Dr Norman Borlaug  deemed as the father of Green Revolution.

9.Identify the lady and her overnight claim to fame.

Answer:Rachel Uchitel; The most famous mistress of Tiger Woods

10.Tough fasting times...hungry kya?

simple one....Identify

Answer:Telangana

@Anand...if only u dint think too much :)

11.Unfortunate...

Identify and connect the 2 pictures.

Answer:Air France Logo. Air France plane crashed in Atlantic; the black box (flight Recorder) hasn’t been found yet.

12.Too tech savvy...

Identify each of the 4 images and connect.

Answer:Shashi Tharoor controversial  "cattle class" tweet based on austerity drive of Govt. of  India on Twitter;the party crashing of Tareq and Michaele Salahi at white house that made news after the couple posted the photographs of the party in FaceBook.

13...And finally the award goes to...

Identify the  personality and his reason to fame.

Answer:Ben Bernanke; Chairman of US Federal Reserve; named the TIME magazine"s person of the year 2009.

Time for the scores:
Preetam 10.5

Deepak 8.5

Shruvi 11.5(...almost there,better luck next time :)

Subin 10.5

Anand 12
 
Great show folks!
Congratulations to  Anand Maharana(You get a copy of the best seller "2 States The Story of My Marriage" by Chetan Bhagat)
 
And now let"s make the resolution for 2010...more quizzes and better participation :)

The Interim Quiz S02Q12

The response this time was extremely feeble ...we just hope it doesnt get any worse than this.

Update :The last date to send in your answers has been extended till 7th Dec 09.

While the big bosses are all bzee bzee,here is an interim quiz …


Rules:

The questions might be too easy or too vague or both…any such case,please bear with me.

Use of search engines though not encouraged is still permitted :)

Send in your answers latest by 5th dec 2009 to sbadhulika@gmail.com


Reward:

The winner gets cheap (errrr sorry, free :P) publicity on this blog

Regulations:

All arguments in the comments section are subject to the IPC 268 under the category of public nuisance

So…without any further delay,let”s get started… All the best!

1.Identify the famous 4 and connect them.

Answer:Pierre Curie, Marie Curie  and their daughter & Son-in-law Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie-  nobel prize winners all from one family.


2.Identify and connect

Answer:Trouble, Freedom & Konvicted- all being Akon"s albums

3.  Few days from now,it will be 25 years to have loomed large over our lives.

Identify the incident.

Answer: Bhopal gas tragedy

4.Identify and connect . A is related to B in the same way as C is to D.
(A)

(B)                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

(C)???

(D)

                                

Answer:Emirates Airlines (A) is national airline of Dubai (B, Flag of Dubai). Etihad Airways (C) is the national airline of Abu Dhabi (D, Flag of Abu dhabi)

5. Identify the movies and connect        

 

Answer:Kamasutra, Monsoon Wedding, Salam Bombay…Films directed by Mira Nair

6.Identify the lady and cite her reason to fame.

Answer:Lena Soderberg, her image is the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms

7.What does this signify?

Answer:Acupuncture chart

8.Identify the landmark.

Answer:Colosseum , Rome, Italy

9.Identify the ad and the incident that made it quite a buzz…

Answer:Natalie Imbruglia Ad for PETA’s Anti-Fur Campaign.The incident refers to President Obama killing a fly that buzzed him in mid interview(him in the ad  was self explanatory).

10.Identify this famous personality

Answer:Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement

11.Prized possessions…what are these?

Answer:Easy...Michael Jackson’s Diamond studded gloves

12.This is an ad for an world class brand. Identify the brand.

Answer:Hermes

13. School chale hum….Line LMN is called???

Answer: Simson"s line ...foot of the perpendiculars drawn from any point on a circle to the sides of a traingle incribed in it are collinear.And the line joining them is called simson"s line.

14.War of words…Hmmm…simply connect

Answer:Civic, Kayak, Malayalam & Rotor …all are palindromes !

Despite this dull response,we still had fun with some jokey :P answers from our participants...

for Q2...Hitman

     Q6... Parveen Babi

     Q13...Diameter...even Trapezium!

And now the scores...

Rithwik 10.5

Preetam Jena 6

Anand Maharana 12.5

Avinash Thomas9

Pulkit Popli 8.5

 
 
The winner is Anand Maharana
(clapping applause sound effect  in the background :)

We will be back..

Hello All,

Its been a long time since we had a QUIZ at our site..

But the good news is We would be back..

Thanks,

The Weekly Quiz Blog Team

P.S--We would be happy to have a few more QMs..

The "Winners Take It All" Quiz S02Q11

Quite a Dull Response despite the fact that this Quiz had Prizes to be won..

Rules :
1. All * marked questions carry 2 marks and the rest carry 1 mark..In case people get equal marks ,early entries would win..

Lets begin..

Question 1* :The Group left many spell bound and created a niche for themselves. Identify the chart-topping Album and the Band .



Answer : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & The Beatles

Question2: Identify the Logo . Colours are a give away..And its a craze now-a-days..
Answer : Google Wave

Question 3* : Identify and Connect the 4 Pics . We might just see some of these places in TV in the near future..



Answer :Pink floyd Hotel in Pushkar, Rajasthan; Xuan Zang Memorial in Nalanda; Begum ka Church also known as the Basilica of Our Lady of Graces in Sardhana near Meerut; JAMBUR - INDIA KA AFRICA; New Ad campaign for Bajaj Discover DTS-Si
Only Anand gave the correct answer for this..Great Crack..

Question 4 : Identify the Book. Everything has been wiped off except...

Answer : Imagining India - The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nileakani.

Question 5 : What is missing in the Pic ?

Answer :Taxi 9211 (Hindi adaptation of Changing Lanes(1st poster)), the last poster is the Tamil adaptation of the earlier two - TN07 AL 4777

Question 6 *: Identify the award winning Animation Movie.

Answer : No time for nuts .

Question 7 *Innovative and Intelligent.. Identify and connect .

Answer : Pics are of Logo of the Colors Channel,Dabbawalas with Prince Charles,1984 movie and motorola. The Mumbai Dabbawalas,who are 6 Sigma certified, were used for the promotion of BIGG BOSS Season 3 .They wore the mask of Amitabh Bachchan and T-shirts for the marketing of reality show Bigg Boss.Bigg Boss as we all know is inspired by Big Brother ,inspired from fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four(made to film 1984).

Question 8 : Seriously ? Identify


Answer : PlayBoy in Braille for Blind.

Question 9 : All set to undress . :P Identify and Connect ..

Answer :Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana(Connection); And the new ad campaign for its latest fragrance collection, The D&G Anthology.Easy One.Which wasn't?

Question 10 *: Identify . And it has no connection to District 9.

Answer : The mangled TV antenna from the World Trade Center anchors the 9/11 exhibit with a wall of that days front pages from around the world at the new Newseum building in Washington, D.C

Question 11* : Identify and Connect . Something we all grew up with..

Answer :The connection is the TV series RAMAYAN.
The pics are of :
Coverpage of Limca Book of world records.Ramayan was listed in the Limca Book of Records as the world's "most viewed mythological serial" until June 2003.
NDTV Imagine.In 2008, a re-make of Ramayan produced by Sagar Arts began airing on NDTV Imagine.
Sunil Lahiri who featured as Lakshman in the TV series.

Question 12 : The Latest and the First . Whats the connection ?

Answer : Album Covers of Death Magnetic by Metallica and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely; Both won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover or Best Recording Package in 2009(latest) and 1959(the first or the inaugural Grammy awards).

Question 13* : What connects all of them ?

Answer :Pics are of Henry King "Hank" Ketcham, creator of The Dennis the Menace ; A Briard ; Alice in Wonderland; logo of Wilson sporting goods; Henry VIII. The connection is Dennis The Menace .Hank Ketcham is the creator of Dennis The Menace it. Father of the character Henry Mitchell, Mother Alice Mitchell. Mr. George Wilson whom Dennis always disturbs. And Dennis’s dog Ruff,which is a briard.

Question 14* : A : B :: C:D . A & B are the 1st 2 pics..C& D are the next 2 . Identify D (Shown here as something else) and give the Formoula (connection).



Answer :William Shatner.
Star Trek Charachters of the original series and the latest movie Star Trek in 2009.
A =Zachary Quinto B=Leonard Nimoy..both portrayed the character of Spock
C=Chris Pine D=William Shatner..both portrayed the character of James T. Kirk

Question 15* : Connect ...


Answer :Murder of John Lenon/Mark Chapman.- The book 'The Catcher in the Rye'(1st Pict) which the killer Mark Chapman was obssesed with and considered his life mirrored the main protagonist Holden Claufield.The killer was camly reading the book after he shot Lenon at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, (3rd Pict).The 2nd pic is of the 2008 movie 'Chapter 27' based on Lenon's murder.

Question 16 : Identify the Flop Movie .Its was however the start of a brilliant career.

Answer : Pehla Nasha ,directorial Debut of Ashutosh Gowariker.


Now for the scores..

A tight finish for the Top Spot this time..
Tirtha Mandal--17.5
Sushmee--16
Sourav mandal--14.5
Ashish --19
Rajeev jena--13
Ashwini--22.5(q1-half answer for the name of the album,q3-wrong answer)
Anand--22(q11-wrong,q7-wrong connection )Tough Luck .

Ashwini gets a GIFT VOUCHER from LIFESTYLE worth Rs 500..Congrats to You..

The next Quiz would be on Wednesday/Thursday i.e 14th /15th Oct.